CVE-2004-0897: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 42.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Indexing Service for Microsoft Windows XP and Server 2003 does not properly validate the length of a message, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2005-01-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.